IBUSINESS NOTICES: . . " • • x• • okr " SCALE OVERSTRISII6 PIANOS. Acknerwledlged to be the bort London Prize Medal an. etrAwards in America received. MELODEON • 3 t ECONDMAND PlANufi. .1192 m w eltml Wareroome. MI Arch et.. beL Eighth. EVENING BULLETIN. lionday, January 20, 1808. TRAIN. Scarcely anything can be imagined more delightful to George Francis Train, than his present condition. He has alarmed the Majesty of Great Britain ; he has been ar rested and imprisoned by Her Majesty's Government; he is the subject of cable tele grams which are printed all over the 'United States; his name is to-day in the mouths of millions of men and women, and he has the felicity of believing himself a grand Interna tional difficulty. He must, with his love for notoriety, be supremely happy, and if he should come near a crown of martyrdom, with an assurance still that his life would be safe, be would unquestionably be willing to endure imprisonment and many other hard ships. The seizure of Train and two other passen gers on the Scotia, at the time of her arrival at Queenstown, on suspicion of being en gaged in the Fenian cause, is an event that needs to be told with more detail than that of the cable, before it can be well understood. But every one knows that he has been raving in behalf of the Fenians in this country for a long time, and his ravings have, of course, been as *ell known in Great Britain as here. It was characteristically audacious in him to sail for Liverpool on the heels of one of his wildest and craziest harangues ; and he fairly challenged arrest by his departure under such circumstances. As for the two other per sons arrested, named Grinnell and Gee, their Fenianism has not been so widely published as his, but they were probably judged by the company they kept. The arrest of Train himself cannot be re garded by him as a personal grievance. The inconvenience of it is more than counter balanced by the distinction it gives him. The American people must be rather amused than offended by it. Most of the sensible among them will say, "Served him right." But, after all, there are principles of justice and international law that must even be ap plied to him, and our government will have to make him and his comrades in confine ment a subject of diplomatic correspondence. Dangeito his lite is not to be apprehended; for the Queen's government is not going to martyrize him. But, after confining him awhile, and then sending him oat of the country, under recognizances to avoid it in the future, it can afford to be •indifferent about Lim. The present aspect of his case is rather ludicrous, and he must enjoy so much his notoriety as a prisoner of state that it is premature to offer him even condolence. Further news concerning his case, and the evidences against him, will, however, be looked for with interest. SHOININ IIIEIII HAND. Andrew Johnson's crop has grown rapidly, and the harvest which has sprung from his sowing is rank and luxurious. Discontent and disorder at the South, and all the bitter malignity of the Democracy at the North, which was hushed into silence by the sup pression of the rebellion and the triumph of the Union cause, have everywhere sprung up again, fresh-armed and as troublesome, as venomous and as fully bent upon mischief as when the war was at its height. For this, thanks to the almost unaided efforts of that , Andustrious husbandman, Andrew Johnson. He has labored day and night, sowing his seed of discord and dleaffection and developing every root of bitterness at the North and the South, until he is rewarded by seeing every element of hostility to the principles of liberty and Union actively arrayed against Congress and a loyal people. This hostility has gradually taken more and more definite shape. It has moved forward, ever keeping pace with Mr . Johnson's factious opposition to the will of the peciple, until, encouraged by partial suc cesses at the elections, it openly proclaims its revolutionary designs upon the very floor of Congress itself. Perhaps the most distinct enunciation of These designs which has yet been made was the speech of Mr. Brooks, on Friday last. Mr. Brooks has been a consistent copper _bead throughout-the war-and since its close,— and no doubt fairly represents the general tone and spirit of his party at the present time. He does not hesitate to declare it as his hope and as the purpose of his party, to overturn all the legislation of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses. " Everything which has been done 'iß to be undone," is the un qualified language of this audacious mouth piece of Southern rebels and their Northern sympathisers, and the language finds an echo in the heart of every enemy of the Union throughout the land. It is this hope of a coming revolution which buoys up Mr. Johnson, and which has infused so much ani mation into the spirit of factious opposition to the laws on the part of the President and hie followers. It is the belief of the leaders of the Democratic party that by maintaining a steady howl at the Republican,Congress they can gradually persuade the people that the laws of that Congress are unconstitutional, and that they, the Democrats, are the con servators of the public peace and liberty. The game is a bold one, but it is being badly played. The onslaught which these hungry politi cians have made has begun too soon and has been pressed too rapidly. They have be trayed themselves by their rabid barking and howling, and instead of frightening the loyal people of the land out of their senses, as they hoped to do, they have simply aroused them and set them on their guard. such threat; ai those of Mr.. Brooks do good service. They call, the attention of the quiet,thinking, nntses to the mad designs of the men who, like him, would tear down the teini.le of lib , Jty, if they may only be eut brow it upon its ruin;. Nen, everywhere, begin to tee that Jr thew are the designs of the Deinocraile ()Arty, no man who really loves his country !Ind (lc sires to uphold her honor and to promote her ogperity earl (WO. ip his Ifn with i n ane purposes F.O destructive and revolinitkary. it "everything which but been dune, is to be undone," then all those tests which distin guish between loyalty and treason, between union and secession, between honor and dis honor, between right and wrong, are to be swept away: Men, are to be brought into the Congress of the United States whose hen& are red with blood of the brave soldiers of the United States, and who will be ready to spend half the rebel debt in buying votes enough to assume the other half. This is a part of the programme which Mr, Brooks has not yet announced, but it is 'nevertheless in the programme, and has been rehearsed in many a Southern conclave. The South is to be made whole for all her losses in slaves and money, by this grand scheme of undoing all that Congress has, done. A people forewarned by such out-spoken threats as those of Mr. Brooks, and not found' fore-armed against them, would be a nation of, dreamers or of fools, and that the American people are not. They may need some such clear definition of the purposes of the Democratic party to arouse them to action; but being warned,they will at once more "highly resolve that: , the dead shall not have died in,vain.", The people are undoubtedly weary of the strife which was begotten by the rebellion, and would gladly see the whole vexed question of recon struction soon and forever settled; but they will tolerate no such bargain as Mr Brooks proposes to make with the South; nor pur chase peace at the fearful cost of national honor, prosperity and liberty, which he and his colleagues desire to pay. THE SUP.REHE COURT BILL. The bill which has already passed the House, in reference to the Supreme Court, will, doubtless, be carried through the Senate and, after - undergoing the regular ordeal of a veto, become a law. At first sight, many well-disposed and intelligent persons have been startled by the introduction of a bill which qualifies the powers of the Supreme Court, but calm reflection will show not only the legality but the wise expediency of the measure. The bill, as passed by, the House, provides that not less than five \ judges shall constitute a quorum, and that no case pending before the Supreme Court, involving the action or effect of any law of the United States, shall be decided adversely to the validity of such law, without the concurrence of two thirds of all the members of the Court. That there is nothing unconstitutional in this pleasure is evident. The Constitu tion creates the Supreme Court, but does not, in any way, determine such questions of its methods of operation as the one now involved, and the very fact of the tremendous power and responsibility vested in that Court suggests the principle that there must still be lodged with the peo ple the power of self-protection against the_ possible abuse of that power and respon sibility. It is absurd to suppose that this great nation would ever permit the Supreme Court to establish a quorum of one or tWo, for instance, and then allow any one judge, perhaps tottering on the verge of his dotage, or given over to the control of some bitter par tisanship,to pronounce the final verdict upon the gravest interests of the nation. Congress sees this danger and proposes to avert it in a perfectly legitimate way. There is a bitter and desperately revolutionary purpose on the part of the Democratic party to undo the whole legislation which the rebellion has made necessary, and, as the Supreme Court now stands, it needs but the bias of a single individual to overturn the whole fabric of reconstruction, to restore tr , slavery to the South, or to pay millions on millions to the slave-holders for their los pro perty in human beings, to bind the burden of the rebel debt on the American people, to glorify treason by law and to aurrender all the fruits of the glorious victories which have cost the nation such an incalculable price. It is in the face of these probabilities, that Congress would screen the nation from the fatal results of the prejudice, or passion, or incompetercy of any single judge on the Supreme bench. The dangers are not exag gerated, nor are they at all reroute. They are openly discussed and threatenei at the South, and are already thrusting themselves forward into the Supreme Court. The times deinand that Congress shall exercise all its constitutional powers with a cool head and an iron hand. All the experience of the past and all the aspect of the present, warn against temporizing and timid measures. The Supreme Court bill will be an additional safe-guard to our national liberties, and none will oppose it but those who desire to see those liberties exchanged for the old bondage to the South from which the rebellion has happily delivered us. The doom of Ulysses S. Grant is settled, and so are the aspirations of the half doze* gentlemen of the Republican and Democratic persuasions who desire to step into the Mayoral shoes of Mr. McMichael when his official term shall come to a close. Messrs. Leader, Conrow and Conrad the other day tendered Mr. Andrew Johnson the vote of Philadelphia in the coming Presidential cam paign, and their brother Tooleyites, meeting, at the Constitutional Union Association head quarters, on Chestnut atreet above Fourth, on Saturday flung to the breeze a banner having emblazoned thereon: "For President of the United States, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee; for Mayor of Philadelphia, Wil son C. Swann of Maryland!" This of course settles the matter, and it proves that Messrs. Leader, Conrow and Conrad "spoke by the card." But the occasion upon which the Johnson and Swann banner Was hung upon the out ward walls gave it.more thrilling effect. We all knew that the Tooleyites had nominated Johnson and Sw8111:1, but they waited until the bit the..ly ,of Daniel Webster came around and then they made their flag-raising a pore tint) of ' t he celebration of the day. Doctor Swann dc livered an oration upen the occa- - e'en and he grew, eloquent over the patriotisth z,vel sirtues of the Sage of Marshfield. It A (odd be a rare venture to assume that Mr. IVt I)st ; bil boay would .never have btien calcl)t),trd by our Philadelphia Tooleyites if hip rei uasl ith a s atesmata, had depended upon hi s Inabitri) opposition to the encroach ments of the slave power; upon his Bill Monument and Plymouth Bock .rninivetsary Orations; or upon his great speech in reply to Bayne. But Mr. THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20. 1868. Webster was Secretary of 'State when John Tyler turned traitor to his party, and for rea sons of his own he retained his place when the other members of the Cabinet, of the apostate Virginian handed over their official portfolios and retired in disgust into private life. Mr. Webster, afterwards, on the •_ floor of the Senate, advocated thi) so-called Com promise Measures of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law and all, and he thus helped to dig the grave of the great Whig party. These later acts of his eventful public life were what commended him to the Philadelphia Tooley ites and are what caused his illustrious name to be dragged prominently into an absurd glorification of a presidential candidate whose chances for a re-election to the office he now disgraces are scarcely more promising than the chance for the same office of the most insignificant Ward politician the country can produce. Some of our cotemproaries, in taking ground against the views of the BIILLSTIN in respect to the rights of ice cutters and skaters on the Schuylkill,. hold that the river is a highway, and that when it is-frozen over the ice bridge becomes a portion of this high way which cannot legally be disturbed. By the same token ice boats are unlawful in stitutions, for ice certainly converts the sur face of the Delaware into a temporary natural bridge,precisely the same as it changes condition of the Schuylkill. Nay, more than this, active efforts have been made quite recently to procure the services of an ice boat to clear the Schuylkill of wintry ob structions south of the dam at Fairmount. Whether the skating interest, or the coal, lumber and oil interests that cluster pretty thickly along the banks of the river, from Callowhill street to Point Breeze, are to carry the day, will probably soon be tested, for it is not likely that another winter will be suffered to pass without an eflbrt being made with the aid of steam to raise the periodical ice embargo of the river. It will be understood that the BerrainriN has never claimed that ice-cutting should be done without any legal restrictions, any more than it would claim that water should be drawn from the river without any regard to the rights of others than the drawers. No person has a right to stir up the mud at the bottom and spoil the entire stream every time he needs a drink, nor has the ice-cutter a right wil fully to spoil the business or pleasure of others when he desires to fill his ice-house. There should be reason in all things, but the, is no reason in putting an absolute interdict upon all ice-cutting upon the Schuylkill above Fairmount, because it interferes with the amusement of skaters or sliders. The Teachers' Institute, of this city, has secured the services of Dr. Chapin for a lec ture to-morrow evening. On Tuesday even ing of next week, January 28, Professor Agas siz will also lecture before the Institute, his deep interest in its objects inducing him to come once more before the public as a lectu rer. There was always a high appreciation of Professor Agassiz in Philadelphia, and his re-appearance for even a single evening will be welcome. Mr. Bailey's Collection of Pictures, which has excited so much attention in the Academy of the Fine Arts, is to be sold at public auc tion by M. Thomas & Son, in Horticultural Hall, on the evenings of Monday and Tues day, Feb. 3d and 4th. The catalogues are now ready. There have rarely been of fered to the public so many master-pieces of the best foreign artists. DEATH OF HON. JOHN H• CAMP.. BELL. Hon. John H. Campbell, a well-known citizen of the Thirteenth Ward, died yesterday at his residence, Northwest corner of Sixth' and Vine streets. Mr. Campbell was a member of the bar,and for many years he was Identified with the old Districts of Spring Garden and Northern Liberties ; and, after the consolidation of the city in 1854,with the Thirteenth Ward. He represented Spring Garden and the Northern Liberties (which then formed the old Third Congressional District) in Congress from 18-15 to 1817. He de clined a re-nomination for the office,, although his course had been most acceptable to his con stituents, and he devoted himself to the practice of his profession. For many years he was the Solicitor of the Bank of Penn Township. He en joyed a large private practice, which was princi pally in the line of real estate cases. He was a gentleman of unblemished integrity, and a moss useful citizen. He was in the sixty-eighth year of his age at the time of his death. Very Valuable__ Paintings. Cata logues of Messrs. Bailey & Co.'s colle,cdon — of - Paint - - mge, now on exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, and to be sold at Horticultural Hall on the lid and 4th February, by M. Thomas & Sons, tAnctioneers, are now ready. lirtrCatalognes of the valuable Real Estate and Stocks to be sold to-morrow, at the Exchange, may be had at the auction rooms. DOWNING'S AMERICAN LIQUID CEMENT, FJR mending broken ornaments. and other articles of GIRPB, China, Ivory, Wood, Alarble, dm No heating re quired of the article to be mended, or the Cement. Al ways ready for nee. For sale by JOHN R. DOWNING, Stationer fey-tf MA South Eighth street two doors ab. W'alnnt. BUSINESS ROOMS TO LET, AT *I CHESTNUT STREET. APPLY TO THEODORE H. SIoCALLA. de29•Urp4 IN THE HAT STORE. WARBURTON'S IMPROVED. VENTILATED and easy-fitting Dress Bats (Patented ) a the AP. proved fashions of the season. Chestnut street, next door to the Post-othce. selB-I,yrp } MEW FIRMS WILL FINE) A VARIETY OP STORE tools in our stock, much ea Box Chisels. Ligatun Vitro and Iron bound Al allebt, Cheese, Butter andllnm Testers, Sugar and Coffoo Gimlets, Colton Samplers, wale hooks, Tap Borers. MolntstsOaten, Spigots, Faucets, Yard Sticks sod Anne Measures, Ate. AC. MC. TRUAN at SHAW, No. 8.35 (Eight Thirty. five) Market street, below Ninth. MINTED RECEIPTS FOR MAKING THE IVISCOI , .I. sin Cakes or Bran Muffins (which agree with moat despepties), and also for the Corn Wiwonln Cakes. are fnrrlehed to purchasers of the pans. TRUMAN 4 SIIAW, No. *35 (Eight Thirty-five) Market street, below Ninth. Philadelphia. I._looKti AND STAPLES FOR STEP LADDE;RS. .I_l Iron IV to 42 inchee, in stock at TRUM AN & lIIIAMPS, No. b 35 (Etat Tbirty.Svc) Market street, be low Ninth. Hair and wtEke"Ve"ds. 1867.131W 1 CdUaTocaTO Shave and Bath, a) Ceptkl: • Razors net in order. rB vixen Sunday morning. 126 Exchange Plice : ILG. C. KOPP, p OSTAGF AND REVENUE STAMPS FOR SALE AT Dilion'e Milliuory Store, ICJ South Street. je20,3t4 ('!OLD COLOR KID GLOVES. k.A Thu new larl , Shade for evening wear, with one und two button.. Sizes 5:11 to tU. - - Juet received by - GEO. W. VO(TEL. jal7-6trpo 1016 tilicatnut Ytreet. B ERM'S TWO .BUTTON WHITE KID riLovEs. Pi/MA to 6%; al.4n Ono Button . Wlino Kid.Olorea 5.4 to Jutt'rectived by Ill!X). W. VOGEL. Jal7 6t • No. 1016 Cho:tnot Btroot .fkIANKINO WITH INDELIBLEJINK, EMBROIDER' ill& Braiding, Stumping, elm __ . • _ 1033 k LOOK_ I to , (MC I—WALL , PAPERS Al Gold rt,) ,„ " d ct gi a 1 li t 4 ll P a t g u il. "Y l i l e t B al 2 6 cle t ti : 3l) I gi d a4ll '4c- ocy Shailee at inminfavtilvere` price& ' JviI.NI3I.I,INI3 Depot N0.103:3 Spring Garden &met. italktlyry, FIFTH EDITION. LATEST FROM WASHINGTON. ARREST OF GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN A CURIOUS STORY. ANOTHER 'RAILROAD ACCIDENT. SEVERAL PERSONS BADLY HURT. FRO M CANAD A. Fire in the Houses of Parliament. [Bpecial Despatch to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] WASMKGTON, Jan. 20.—A curious story is in circulation' hero to-day, in diplomatic circles, which occasions some little talk. The British Foreign Legation, it is stated, have positive knowledge that George Francis Train was sent to Ireland by certain parties in this country with the understanding and expectation that he would there be arrested on suspicion of being a Fenian, in which event he was to be made a test case between England and the United States, in deciding whether the former possesses the right to arrest Americans and hold them responsi ble for language net used within the bounds of the British dominions. BOSTON, Jan. 20.—The mail train which left New York on Sunday morning, for Boston, met with an accident on the Providence railroad, this morning, near Mansfield. Two passenger cars forming the rear of the train were thrown from the track by a broken rail, and several per sons were seriously injured though none, were killed. The following is a list of the suf f erers: E. E. Sheperdson, of Providence; H. A. Guild, of .Attleboro; Thomas Hawkins and wife; Mrs. Swan and Miss Lucy Price, both of Providence; Patrick Dolan, of Portland, and John Malham, of Dedham. QUEBEC, Jan. 20.—The river in front of the city is again frozen over, and all attempts to break it by ferry steamers have proved una vailing. A fire broke out in the Parliament building on Saturday last, but was extinguished without much damage. Soup kitchens are to be established here, and other means adopted for the relief of the city poor. Discount on American invoices for the ensuing week is 28 per cent. By the Atlantic Cable. LONDON, Jan. 20.—Advices have been received here that the Fenians attacked a Martell° tower at Dnngarvon, Ireland, on Friday evening. No particulars have been received. LONDON, Jan. 20, Evening.—Consols, 923. U. States Five twenties, 72. Illinois Central, 85;4. Erie, 48%. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 20. Evening.—Cotton quiet; rplands 73ad. on the spot and 73jd..t0 arrive. Cheese 525. 9d. Other articles unchanged. The steamship Helvetia has arrived here from New York. Co:worm, N. H., Jan. 20.—Alderman Dargen, formerly Major of the Seventh New Hampshire Vole., died yesterday. ATCHISON, Nebraska, Jan. 20.—A fire in this city yesterday destroyed the stores of Howard Sr, Co., and Greenbaum dr, Co. The loss is $250,000, covered by insurance. XLth Congress—Second Session. Llintnt.—Continued Iron Fourth Edition. Mr. Washburne (Wis.) introduced a joint reso lution declaring that no person who has been secretary, assistant secretary or clerk in any of the departments of the Government shall be per mitted to practice as an attorney or as agent for the prosecution of claims before the department in which he has been such secretary, &c., until two years after the expiration of his term of ser vice. Read three times and passed. Mr. Washburne (Wis.) asked leave tointroduce a joint resolution constituting the Secretary of War, Secretary, of the Interior mid Attorney- General a Board of Commissioners, whose duty it shall be, on the first day of July, each year, to establish a tariff of prices for freight and passengers on the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad, and their branches, which tariff shall be equitable and just, and shall not exceed double the average rates charged on the different lines of railroads be tween the Mississippi river and the Atlantic ocean, in latitudes north of St. Louis, and declaring it unlawful for such railroad companies to charge any sum in excess of the rates so to be fixed. Mr. Dodge (N. Y.) objected, as Mr. Wash burne had already offered one resolution. Mr. Windom (Minn.), the State of Minnesota being next called, then introduced the joint re solution, and called for the previous question. The House refused to second the previous question, and Mr. Higby (Cal.) having proposed to debate the joint , resolution it went over under the rule. The House at 1.20 resumed the consideration ofof-the-bill-reported-from-the-Committee-on--Re construction, Mr. Bingham giving notice that he would order the previous question at 3.20. 1668. isos. GEORGE H. BROWN, MOT OILCLOTHS IN THE UNITED STATES (Mice and Salesroom. 40 South FOURTH Street. Fac tory, ANN and RIJUEHONT Strtete, Philadelphia. Having the most COMPLETE Factory in the United States, with new machinery and improved methods, I am nmuufacturingfar the beet articles over offered to the trade, and at prices as tow as inferior troods are sold, My large facilities enable me to supply orders of every deeeription. A special lealtire is made of NEW and TASTEFUL PATTFENB in Stair and Carriage Goods; and in Table Goods, be, ides usual styles splendid articles in Oak, Rosewood, Mahogany, Marble. and Bronze, with a full line al Enamelled Ducks, Drills and Mulins, re - Orden by mail have the same careful attention as bills bought in person. jal6ln4 UNION PACIFIC R. W. Eastern Division, BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD BY BARKER BROS. & CO., No. 28 S. Third Street. J.18.12trp4 AUSTIN & OBERGE, - 813 WALNUT STREET, PUTLADELPHIA, coMMISSION STOCK BROKERS s'irocuß, BONDS it NO LOANS, no44lrarp BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISEGON M. A. 'FURRY. ISIX) Filbert street situ /SHAND LAYER KAISINIO4. WIIOLES halves, and gnarter boxer of F s b , oplendld fruit, land. fog and fr solo la JOO. M. DU MB b IX), 109 Booth Delaware tweeze. 4:00 O'C'loolt. BY TELEGRAPH. The, Arrest of G. F. Train. Railroad Accident. From Canada. Obituary. Fire in Nebraska. lrormerly Brown t Price,) MANUFACTURER ' Bargains in Clothing. Mr" Bargains in Ctotiting. _JES 1 Bargains in Clothing. inn" Bargains in Ctothing...g..! Er Bargains in Clothing. -al VW Bargains in Ciottithg. Mer Bargains in Clothing...4a I Bargains in Unthing. ;al VI" Bargain,* in Milting. 14, - Bargains in Clothing. _al Dr Bargains in Clothing. ..aj Itar - Bargaini i i Clothing. _441 Itir , Bargains in Clothing. rw Bargains in Clothing. _AEI Of" Bargains in Clothing...as ref - Bargains in Clothing, _au IV' Bargains in Clothing. _as IW' Bargains in. Clothing. -AEll M' Bargains VW' Bargains in Clothing. _raj A Card.—Prievi al f everything reducedetwe the =Mint of stock; the assortment of both Men's and. Boys' Suits and Overcoats Ma Pay good. WANAMARKR & BROWN, WANAMAYER & BROWN. WANAMARCR & BROWN, WANAMARRR & BROWN, WANAALARRR At HROWR, Tan LADORAT OLCYTHINO HODAH, OAR HALL, TUE CORNER OH SIXTH AND MARKET 818. CLOSING OUT! CLOSING OUT ! Stock Must be Sold before Feb. 1. Still Further Reductions in Prices: $1 25 All-Wool Poplins, Choice Colors, Reduced to 75e. dl 60 Plaid Poplins reduced to St t ,no lot fluid Poplins reduced to 60c. Ono lot Plain Albwool Poplins reduced to 50c. $2 All-Wool Ottoman Velour Poplins Reduced to $l5O. *I 25 Plain Black A 1 1 ,11.001 Poplins reduced to 75c. Double width All.wool Black Delano', reduced to 65c. 1,500 YARDS 11-2 Yards Wide English Merinoes Reduced to 500. One lot Granite Poplin', reduced to 16e. All the bent makes of Bleached and Unbleached Sheet. lug, riIIOW•CILVC and Shirting Muslim, from 6 1-4 to WC. H. FervEL, & SON, Nos. 713 and 715 N. Tenth St. It HORTICULTURAL HALL. FINE ARTS. 1 SW 8. At the solicitation of many of our patrons, we have decided to make a GRAND PUBLIC SALE of our Magnifi cent Collection of OIL PAINTINGS, which has been For the last three months on exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The sale will be conducted by Messrs. THOMAS & SONS', at Horticultun Hall, Broad Street, on the Evenings of 3d and 4th of February. Catalogues, Terms of Sale, eto., etc., will be published hereafter. BAILEY & CO. tnl7•f•m.w.tfrp ThE GIRARD LIFE INSURANCE ANNUITY AND Ccmpany, of Philadelphia, in conformity with an Act of the Legislature, publish a statement of the as eete held on lat January. 108, as follows: Real ,Fetato. Bonds and If ortgagee. Ground Rents. Loaned on Collateral 5ecur1ty............. LOBllO, viz.: • $10,176 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company Loan. 6 per cent 136,900 City of Philadelphia Loan, 8 per cent.... .. . '.......... 40,000 llarrieburg Railroad Company Loan. 6 per cent. J .......* 4,600 Delaware and Raritan • Canal • Company Loan. 6 per cent.... 7,000 Lishigh Valley Railroad Com pany Loan, 6 per cent 5,000 Delaware __Railroad __Company. Loan, 6 per cent.. ; ...... '. 6.000 North Pennsylvania railroad Company Loan, 6 per oent. 2,460 Schuylkill Navigation Company Loan, 6 per cent ... . . ........... 10,000 Delaware - Division Canal .Com pany Loan, 6 per cent......... 12,000 l'ennsylvarda Railroad Company Loan. 6_ per cent . . .... ' 8,000 Morrie & Essex Railroad Com pany Loan, 6 per cent.'...... 11.000 Cincinnati Loan, 6 per cen t... .. 106'060 Pennsylvania State Loan, 6 per cent— . , ...... . 7,000 Kentucky * State Loan. 6 per cent. 4,1,400 Susquehanna Canal Co. Loan, 6 percent..... .. ..... ..... 263,/60 United States 6.20 years' Loan, percent ...... ............ ....... 43.750 'United States of 1881 . 6 per cent 2,0)11 Connecting It. R. Co. Loan, 6 per cent. ...... .. . . 11.000 Pbila. & It. Reading .R. Co. Loan 6 per cent.. .... 7,000 Morrie Canal Co Loan. 6 per cent 26,750 U n it e d 5 7.3 per 15,000 Cleveland & Mahoniug It. R. Co. Loan, 7 per cent.... ... .... 2,000 Illinois Central It. Loan, - 7 rer cent.... _. ... ... . .. . . 4,000 Philadelphia & Sunbury li. ... Co., 7 per cent....... . 4,143 Pittsburgh & Allegheny Uo.Lotut 6 per cent—. „ 7 000 Tenni sees State Llau, 5 per cent. 18,710 Pennsylvania Loan, 6 percent... 42,360 United Staten 10.40 yearn Loan, 5 per cent, WHAM 4, VIZ.: :30 shares Northern Bank of Yon, 68 shams Bank of Lau1ava1e........ 420 ah area Lehigh Valloy R. H. C 0.... Lti:6 shares Girard Litoinsuranco. An nuity and Trust Co. of Phila.. 90 sharcs Philadelphia National Bunk.... 163 /hares Farman' and Mechanical National 8aLk...... • „_ ~.• • 09 elm es Commercial ational Bank .. . . .. . 46 shares Mechanics ' isicalonal Bank 29 tibares Bank of Northern Mbcr flea 77 Shares Penn 'Bank, 1133 Shares Western National Bank.. 017 Shares Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 316 Sharca Harrisburg Railt oad Co.. UN Shit: ea Mint bill and Bchuylkill Il aven.ltailroad C 0... JOEIIi F. TAM .IANT , AIey BOSTON AND TRENTON 'BOOI3IT.—TIni trade supplied with Bond's Rutter, Cream. Milk, Oyu. ter and Egg - Biscuit Abe, West & Thorn's celebrate! Trenton and Wine Dieutrolt, y J 08.13. HUSKER at OW finle Armnta. WA Mouth Deitlware avenno `BAKER SWEET CORN-95 BARRELS JUST RE crived nud for tole by JOOEPU B. BUBBLER dr , CO., 108 Ecuth Delaw Ivo avenue. - T2ONB , S BOSTON BISCUIT—BS BOSTON BUT. .10 ter ono Milk Birouir, luting rompteatpor Norman . slid for nale by JOS. B. B SSIBIi Ull9.,Afionti3 for Bond, Booth Dolawase nvenue. TREASURY DEPARTMENT PENNSYLVANIA. HARRISBURG, Dec. 18, 1807. TO THE HOLDERS OF THE LOANS. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL- VAPIIA; DUE JULY let, 1888. Due July Ist, 180 S, VIIROB:0914*DemE4:01a0:4115 1 :1*it. DATE OF PAYMENT ON PRESENTATION FARMERS' AND MECHANICS'' NATIONAL BANK PHILADELPHIA, Loan of March 27, 1839, due July 1, 1868. Loan of July 19, 1839, due July 1, 1868. INTEREST ON 'I E ABOVE LOANS WILL CEASE ON THE ler OF JULY, 1868. FRANCIS JORDAN, Say of State. JOHN F. H&RTRANFT, Aud. Geis. $ 44,000 00 1,330,31.2 23 • 93,015 84 . 174,539 10 W. H. KFIIBLE, oState Treat. Commissioners of Sinking rand. del94tdrm w f 4QI: POPULAR PRICER e. ao DRY GOODS. RICKEY,SHARP&CO., CHESTNUT. STREET,. $2,7(18.717 16 fl, Actuary. 11,60.m6t1 ELDEN PLOIiWEIL SOAP, 11. P. & C. R. TAYLOR, F ITLER, WEAVER & • Co.. PEW CORE AGE FA :TORY No. Za N. WATER and 2.3 N. DEL. ammo. i. 121 - NOTICE. OF THE THE FOLLOWING LOANS, AT TEE FOR 727 No. 844 North Nbith atroor NOW IN FULL °VENATION. SECOND EDITION. BY TELEGRAPH. LATER ()ABU NEWS. TO-DAY'S COMMERCIAL NEWS BAD FIRE AT .HARRISBURG By the Atlantic Telegraph. LONDON, Jan. 20, Noon. Consols 92%@92% for money and account. U. B. Five-twenties 72 Illinois Central 85%ex-div Ede Railroad 48% Atlantic and Great Western 243 LIVERPOOL, January 20th, Noon.—Cotton firm and unchanged. The sales will probably reach 15,000 bales. Breadstuffs quiet and firm. Provisions and produce unchanged. Lornfox, January 20, Alternoon.—Consols, 02% for money and account. American securities quiet. IL B. 5-20'6, 71%@72. Illinois Central, 853 i, cx div. Erie, 48K. LIVETtPOOL, January 20, Afternoon.—Cornehis. Pork firm at 7Gs. Cheese, 525. Gd. Common Rot-in, Gs. Destructive Fire at Harrisburg. 'Special lieepatch to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Efamatsnuno, Jan. 20.—The residence of Robert A. Lamberton, Esq., caught fire this morning, and was partially destroyed. The furniture and other contents were badly damaged by water. The valuable block in which Mr. Lamberton's home st.nds narrowly escaped, and is oven yet in danger, as the fire is not wholly extinguished. Reuther Report. lily the Western Union Telegraph Company.) January. 20th, Thermo .. 9 A IL Wind. • JVeatlpr. meter. Port Hood, Cloudy. 16 Halifax. g. E. Cloudy. 28 Portland, 8. W. Cloudy. 20 Bobton, ' 1 S. W. Cloudy. 14 New York, S. E. Cloudy. 22 Wilmington, Del., S. Cloudy. 28 Washington, S. E. Snowing. 26 Bort Monroe, N. W. Raining. 36 Richmond, 8. E. Rain and sleet, 32 Oswego, S. Cloudy. 23 Buffalo, W. Cloudy.. 35 Pittsburgh, Cloudy. 28 Chicago, Cloudy. 25 ,Louisville, N. ' Raining. 38 New Orleans. S. W. Cloudy. 68 Mobile, S. W. Raining. 51 Arrival of a Steamer. NEW Yoisfc, Jan. 20.—The steamship :Etna, from Liverpool by way of Halifax, has arrived. CR DIE. THE TITUSVILLE ROBBERY. An Oil Prince Despoiled. [From the Tituaville Herald, Jan. 17. t The house of John Benninghotf was feloniously entered on Thursday night about half-past seven, and robbed of .200,000. Mr. Benninghoff resides in a farm-house on the celebrated Benning,hoff Run, about three-quarters of a mile from Oil Creek, west side, and a mile and a half from Petroleum Centre. His house stands near the road, not frequented much of late, either by travel or teams, and the nearest neighbor is a quarter of a mile distant. Mr. B. is a Penasyl vania. German, 'a plain, hard-working farmer, about sixty years of ago. He has a large family of grown-up children, many of them staying at home. The oid (gentleman all of a sudden had riches thrown upon him by the dis covery of oil on his sterile acres, and is one of our petroleum millionaires. We aelieve the first well was struck on his farm on Pioneer Run, in the fall of 1857; the production of his whole farm for last month was six hundred barrels a day, and ten new wells are now going down on ft. Mr. B.'s income for December last, was reported at e 40,000, but his sudden and dazzling fortune never made a fool of him, and they say he cares nothing for appearances, and Wants to live as frugally and work as diligently as when he used to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow. But he had taken the notion into his head to be his own banker, and to deposit his bonds and greenbacks in his own safe and house. And now he has paid the penalty of very foolish and short-sighted temerity, and he ru ty thank heaven that he was not beaten or killed by the villains who robbed him. The whole com munity have known that Mr. Beriningholf kept his money—and a great deal of it—at home, and will not be surprised to learn of the perpetration of this villainy ranch as they may pity his misfor tune. The circumstances of the robbery show careful premeditation and preparation, but with prompt and vigilant police effort, we believe the criminals can be traced or intercepted in their flight and a good deal at the booty recovered. The house was entered about 7.30 P. M., by four men disguised by handkerchiefs over their faces, and robbed of e 200,000, forty thousand in bonds any the rest in currency. They presented revol vers at the heads of the inmates, when they pro ceeded to lie Mr. John 13enninghoff, his wife, and two tons, and a hired marl and girl. Taking the keys from Mr. Benniughoff they entered the safe and extracted the above amount, after which they eat down and waited half an hour for the return of Mr. Joseph Benninghoff, another son, who was absent, but he did not return until the bur glars had left, taking with them three horses and a cutter. . OUTRAGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Robbery and Murder by Negroes. ' [From the Charleston Courier, 16th.1 About 11 o'clock Friday night last five negroes came to the store of 3i r. M.A. Muldrow, in Darlington District, about nine miles from the Court-blouse, and, rapping np the clerk, Mr. R. Bugs, asked admittance. Mr. Bugs inquired who they were, and receiving the response that they were friends come to trade with him, opened the door of the store. Four negroes, armed with double-barrelled shot guns, entered, and placing their weapons in the corner of the room commenced examining goods, remarking that they were in the employ of the railroad, had just been paid off, and desired to make purchases to the extent of ten dollars each. About fifty dollars worth of goods were selected,when one of the number asked Mr. Bugs if he could change a Treasury Note of the denomination of one hun dred dollars. The wife of Mr. Bugs, who was in an adjoining room heard the remark,and her sus pieions being excited by it, she went out of the back door to the house of a gentleman named Wyndham, and requested him to come to the store, and in case any trouble should occur to ren dt'r Mr. Bugs what assistance ho could. Mr. Wyndham complied, taking a gun with him, and as he reached the store heard the report of a shot. He threw open the door, and was Imme diately fired upon five times by the negroes. He returned the fire, when they rushed upon him and seized his gun, and a scuffle ensued, during which ho managed to client his escape, and re pelling to Mr. Muldrow's house, reported the condition of affairs. As soon as the latter could dress and arm himself, he ran to the store, accompanied by Mr. Wyndham. There all was quiet, and entering they found the shelves of the store completely stripped, the money desk robbed, and the clerk. Mr. Bugs, lying dead on the 'floor, a load of buck shot having passed through his head. From this nviancholy scene Messrs. Muldrow and Wynd ra went to the house of the latter, where they found that Mr. Wyndham's father-in.law had la-en dangerously shot twice in• the head, and his ffi: in three different places on the' person by the same party of negroes. rxpress Robbery In Alabama—Arrest • • of the Robber. [From the Montgomery Advertieer,l4th.] For two days past, the rumor has hewn current o h the streets of' this city, that a heavy robbery had &w en committed on the staunch old Southern Fat ress Company, and that the robber could not Ibt• detected. The Express messenger between Montgomery and Mobile on . Friday last, commit d a robbery of seventy thousand dollars, an 1 hisuc return to Montgomery on Sunday morn ing butt, concocted the following stoPy : That while the train was near. Perdido station, about two hours before day, the express car was entered by two robbers, who fired' several shots at the messenger, then forcibly threw him doWn and procured the key to the safe; that then he rang the ear bell and the robbers jumped off the train with the seventy thousand dollars. No other person was in the car during the night, It being contrary to the regulations of the Com pany to allow any one to ride in the express car, except the messenger himself. The name of the robber Is Thomas Wolfe, and he had been In the employ of the Company only a few months. He showed his coat containing • several bullet-holes, and his tale altogether was very plausible. Mr. Born at once telegraphed the fact to Col. O'Brien, at Augusta, Superintendent of the Company, who immediately came to Mont gomery with a detective belonging to the Company. Colonel O'Brien and the detec tive at once set to work to ferret oat the mat ter, and about twelve o'clock last night,fonnd the greater portion of the money in Wolfe's own house. Upon being thus confronted, the guilty man confessed the crime. He was brought be fore Justice Nettles yesterday, and falling to give the required bond of $20,000 was confined in jail. Mr. Wolfe has many friends, and this unhappy occurrence is deplored as much by his friends in the company as any one else. ST. THOMAS. Diving After Sunken Treasure. HAVANA, Jan. 19, 1868.—A diver named Mur phy had commenced operations to raise the $lO,- 000 in specie that were sunk on board the steamer Rhone during the hurricane of October 29. FROM NEW YOBS• NEW YORK, Jan.- 0 .20.---.john Weigand, a Ger man baker of No. 910 Second avenue, was so severely beaten by a gang of ruffians on the night of the 2d instant, that he died en Thursday last. Before his death he identified—as-his assailants Henry Pauh, Charles Harold, Adam Kistengen, Wilhelm Christman and Charles C. Heck, alias Carman. The inquest was held on Saturday, and is to be resumed to-day. A large delegation representing various per sonal and political interests, left this city for Washington last night. Among those who have gone to the capital are collectors, revenue in spectors, lawyers, and whisky dealers. Who Is to succeed Mr. Rollins as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue Is the subject which seems . especially to concern them. The Rev. Henry C.. Potter, who has accepted' the $lO,OOO call from Grace Church, was formerly pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church, Albany, and is under 80 years of age. Estimating the parsonage which is given him at $4,000 a year, for which it would readily rent, his is the better emolument than Mr. Beecher's, that gentleman's being $12,000 annually, without house rent. Peter Lorillard's executors have given $5,000 to the Mercantile Library Association. STATE OF THE THERMOMETER THIS DAY AT THE BULLETIN OFFICE. 10 A. M... 83 deg. 12 M.... 32 deg. 2P. 11....31 Weather cloudy. Wind Southeast. FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL. The Philudelphi Sales at the Philade. GOO 6200 U S '67 cp email 100 M 2000 P E. 7 3-10 s LTy c 1055; 1000 U 6 7 5-109 Je 105 n 1200 City ao new 701 C,OOO do do 101 i 300 d 0 mun 101,35 2000 Warren & Frank lin 79 7734 2000 W Jerotylt Co fa 2000 Penn It 1 rest 6e 99 79 oh Penne It 52,4 30 Eh • do its , 52% 1(0 eh Spruce & Pine 25 ' ISZTWT.Z 200 City 6e old 97 Iroo Lehigh 6e'64 643,1 1000 Cam/Lana 6e'69 664 10 eh Readll c leant la 463 3 Eli do tent 46% 100th do e6O 46%* 100 eh do b6Ezin • 47N 100 Penn Gs war in coup 103 2300 CaaAm 68 'B3 90 l'irthsnekrins„ Monday. January 20.—There is rather more demand for money, but it IA freely met, and the rates for "call loans" are VgB per cent -411 0 bun( of the negotiations being at the latter figure. The operations In mercantile circles are of a very restricted character and the limited amount of good paper which finds its way among the brokers is taken st St'*9 per cent. Natnes not well and favorably known range from kl per cent. up wattle. There was lees activity at the Stock Beard this morn ing. and the speculative shares were irregular. Govern ment Loans were steady. City Loans were a fraction tower, the new isKlea yelling at and the old at 97. Reading Railroad closed at 46.81—an advance of ,7;; Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. which fell on Saturday, from f.fi'd to 27M. closed to-day firm at 27V2711; Cata- Wifaa Railroad preferred sold at 2.411 an advance of .4; Pennsylvania Railroad at 52%—n0 change; and Lehigh Valley Railroad at 60.%;130 was bid for Camden and Am boy Railroad; 29 for Little Schuylkill Railroad: 304 for North Penna., Railroad; 65 for .Germantown Railroad; 263: for Mine Hill Railroad; and 41 foP Northern Central Railroad. In Canal stocks the only transactions were in Lehigh Navigation. 1..%X(.4*%. Ii was bid for Schuylkill Navigation Preferred, and 513 a for Delaware Division. In Bank and Passenger Railroads shares there was no change. The Trustees of the American Life Insurance Com pany have made a return dividend of fifty percent. upon the premiums paid in 1867 on all mutual policies in force December filet, 1867, to be credited to said policies, and have ordered the dividend of January let, 181, to be paid in settlement of premiums as they mature. Smith, Randolph & Co.. Bankers, 16 South Third street, quote at 11 o'clock as follows: Gold, 139%; United States Sixes, IEBI, 110@11034; United States Five-twenties, 1863, 1104E41105; ; do. 1864. 107,@107,?li; do. 1866,108®10834; do. July. 1865, 1065,1@:fi ; do. 1867. 1053:®106; United States Fives, Ten•fortios, 9.?.1 . ®1115.71;; United States Seven. thirties,second series. I.oo.‘Wi: do. third series, 105, 103%. Messrs. De Haven dr. Brother. No 40 South Third street. make the following quotations; of the rates of exchange to.day, at IP. M.: U. S. 6s, of 1881, 109',W1101,;; do., 1863, 10931@,1101i; do., 1864, 107.1iG1073i ; do., 18fS, 108!;041085;; do., 1865, new, 105;6®106,';; do.. 1867, new, 106';®106!,; Fives. Ten-forties, 1095,R10113.; 7 8-10 e,, June, 1055,1411:1574; do., July, 1065e@1053 ; Compound Interest Notes—June, 1864, 19.40; July, '1864, 19.46; August, 1864, 19.40; October, 1E64, 19.40; December, 1864, 19.43; May, 1866, 1710417,4 ; August, 1E65, 16.'.1®16X; September, 1885. 163:;®16!.,;; Octo. her, 1865, 155 - i@l6fi; American Gold. 1aq.!.?..@129%; Silver, itroogla2. Jay Cooko do Co, quote Government securities, eta., to day, as follovrs: United States re, 1881,, 110!4®11034;Old 640 Bends, 120®110!.£; Now 6-20 Bonds, 1804. 1014,;@,t0Vii 6.20 Bonds 1855, 1083.A:410W ; 1.20 Bonds, July, 1004@M ; 6-20 Bonds, 1867.106%®106!4 106%®106.ii ;10-40 Bonds, 1023,.0103; 7 8-10 June,los!,,',Di 106%; 7 8-10, July. 1055010634 ; Gold 139%. Philadelphia Produce Market. PurwingLrinA, Monday, January 20111.—The dullness in Breadknife which we have recorded for come time past still continues, but with a continuation of ex. tiemely light receipts, and relatively small stocks, holders arc enabled to realise former quOtations. The demand for Flour is confined to small lots for the supply of the houe trade, at $7 28(g8 25 p , r barrel for superfine; $8 25CiP„,2 25 forlExtres ; $lO4Ol 25 for North \Vesta n Extra, Family; $lO fOi?.sl2, for Pennsylvania and Ohio do:, do., and $l2 75Cia,14 for fancy. Prices of Rye Flour and Corn Meal remain as last quoted, but, there is nothing doing hi either. The Wheat market is almost at a stand, and the only sale reported lu a small lot of good I'ennslvania Red at B 2 U®ll2 tcl per bushel. Ryo is steady at $1 65(41 67. Corn comet in slowly, and meets a limited inquiry; sales of new Yellow at $1 124.41 'le, according to dryness; mixed Westei n is held at $1 25. Oats are steady at 76(4 78 cents. In Barley or Malt no further transactions. In Cloverseed no change; 100 bushels Timothy sold at $2 813 i. The maXlect is bare of Elaxeced, - and it is wanted at the late advance. W hieky.— There hai recently been someisi etransac tions in old liye, in bond. on terms kept secret. The Now York Money Market. From to-day' .3 Herald: JA Nner.v 19th.—The moat notable feature of beakless in Well street during the pest week was the advance in gold to 142,Y, attended by unusual activity • and excite ment in the dealingsowing to. the -proceedings -in-Con gress in relation to the reconatraction queetion, the Supreme Court bill and the restoration of atr. Stanton to office. The fluctuations were frequent and equal to 4.!‘ por cent. at tho board within the regular business hours, the lowest sales hay. ing been at 1103% on Saturday morning. and the highest at the p ice previously named on Tuesday. The cicsing quotation woe 1ll8Wiel38)S, the excitement egin ding the news from Washington having entirely quiet(d down by that time, although the market cow t , mied a IM' in tone. The enhanced premium had the eft , et of clocking the demand for fareign exchange awl fie easier the shipmen of produce and securitim, and COL He'Cillt utly declinedly of bile drawn on Europe under which rates below the specie shipping point and helm- the expott of specie and buitio'n two not above the avornge usual when exchange roles below par. The Sub Trefottu y disbursed $2,471.000 In payment of gold TIIE'DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1868. ::money Market. his Stock Ifachanke. ABP. 700 eh Read R h3O 46.81 20 eh do Irani 46.69 45 eh do 46% . 100 eh do 46.81 104 do esB.:lnt 46 SI 100 eh Leh Navetl: b 26% 200 eh do It. 253 y 4eh Lehigh Val 11 50% 100 eh Catawa pf 24% 100 eh b6O 2114" lOU eh do '271 4 , 100 eh do 1360 tax ;116 eh Hazleton coal 48h6 300 eh Ocean 011 3 44 /MAIMS. 500 Leh 6's Gold In opg3:int 90 1000 do due bill 90 100 ph Phi'stark. b3O 2T% 200 sh do 1)30 27 300 Ph Ocean 011 Its 3% 600 Eh •do c 3% BOARD. 1 Eh Lehieh Nay gtk 29 8 eh Leh Val R w interest Sind /697,700 in redemption of 'the rtinelpal of the bonds of 1817, and received $11416,912 on account.of custom duties. On the'Stock Exchange speculation was via during the week, and strung efforts were made to sell the lead ing railway shares down by a prominent bear.part3i, but without much success. At first the bull cliques amieted their operations, an they were desirous that the market should react from the sharp advance of the previous week so that they might be (stabled to bring back at a profit the (sty' s they had sold; but subsequently they become large buyers, meanwhile holding It in choth, and at the close it was very firm, with an upward ten dency and with a large 'short" interest, especially In Erie, to strengthen st. Michigan Southern was the firmest of the railway shares, and Northwestern was about steady. Henry Keep, now one of the Direc tors of the last mentioned Company has latterly sold "puts" against the stock at fl) for thfriy days to a large amount in consideration ofNS(4,II per cent. from which, ft is to be inferred, that it will be sustained above that figure. The feeling of the street is bullish, and the great abundance of mosey, the large earnings of the railways, and the fact that most of the wealthy stock houses and speculators are committed to the movement for a rise .are favorable to much higher prices and an active bull snecalation Among the miscellaneous stocks Atlantic and Pacific Mall were' weak in consequence of the report that the. latter company will pass its next dividend. Government seen. Hiles were in good Investment demand, and wises ad. vented, partly in sympathy with gold, Towards the close, however. they continued to rise independently of it, and on Saturday afternoon they were strong at the highest point of the week, the most marked advance having been In five-twenties of 1862 and 1836. for which there is a for eign market. The advance In five-twenties to 72 in Lon don contributed to this result by favoring a speculative demand for shipment. The money market was throughout easy at about six per cent. for call loans, although them were not a few transactions where large amounts were involved at five per cent. The private bankers, however, asked seven per cent. for small loans on miscellaneous collateral'. -First close commercial paper was in limited supply, and rated at 7@7X per cent, while the banks accommodated their customers freely at the legal rates. The domestic exchanges continue largely in favor of this city, the principal receipts of .currency being of course, from the West, and the tendency is towards a glut of capital, which will be likely to greatly stimulate speculation for a rise on the Stock Excnange in the ab. Pence of any other employment for it, and at present there is none, the dullness of general business throughout the country causing a very light mercantile demand for money. The statement of the associated banks of this city for the week ending on Saturday is ex. traordinarily favorable when we regard it in c.muec tion with the four last rucceding M. dements. all of which have indicated the tendency towards Increased monetary ease which now promises to event uate in aplethora of loanable funds. The large increase of 811.00,618 in deposits which the present statement shows is probably in some little degree due to the revival of confidence In values, and the future of financial affairs consequent upon the passage of the anti-contractlion hill by the Senate. Money hitherto kept in the personal pee. SeFPIOn of individuals has been released, and found its way into the bunts, and at the beginning of the year there is always a larger ag gregate of currency than usual in the pockets of the people, owing to the payment of interest and diVidende en securities' and the requirements of in dividuals for the payment of tradesmen's hills, and the addit fowl exrer ditnres common for a week before and after Christmas. This money is now returning to swell the tide frost, the West, and the effect of the flow in this direction will he perceptible from week to week for some time longer. Tie average legal tender reserve has in creased 82,402.126. and the specie *3,90.011, while the leans have increased only 828+3.2 `6. The circulation al( tie shows a decrease—namely, to the amount of $23,131. '1 he totals of this and the last previous statement are as subjoined Jan• 11. . chit 18. L0ana........ .......... ....$2'.3,170.'M r.82.54.0a3,338 19, •rn. . HA 2.3,121,867 Circulation 34,02037 34.011.000 Deposits 134,835,E25 ilf.ei 03,143 Legal tendere..,..... 63 783.116 61,155 241 by the foregoing it will be EMI that the banks hold a reserve nearly 030 000.002 in excess of the amount re• (mind by law, the exact anm being 823.3,32.831 The re serve actually in hand in specie and legal tender notes la ii89,7A7.108, and the liabiliti , a in deposits and eirculltion ggregate ,V2r.-.2,9C2 143, upon which the required twenty five T er cent. n ottld ne only $159,977,285. 1 he foreign exchange market was drooping all through the week. owing to the diminished demand (or bills and the incriCared supply arising from the advance in sold, and at the close lt was dull and steady. [From to.daY's Tribune.) JAN. 18 —A despetch fr,.ra Washington rays Gen. Lo gan will introduce the following resolution in the Honee on Monday. BeAolrfil, That the agcretary of the Treasury be re. quested to communiesTe this House any information in his possession concerning loans by any National Banks in the city of New York, in violatien of Section 29 of the Na. Goma Currency act, of any nor' irm of their capital, In ex. sees of tke limits provided by said act, mon railroad er mining stocks at fictitious values; and whether he has infomation in tile possession that any officers of such banks are engaged in speculative operations in such storks which itvolve the capital and credit of their respective institutions; and that in event of his not being in DOWVE- Ili01:1 of the necessary facts to furnish this information he take immediate steps to cause an examination to be made, and to adopt retch measures as will compel com. pliauce by raid banks with the provisions of the National Cori - racy act. General Logan should not stop here, but ehonld ask- for a "smelling committee" to gtt a list of members of Con gress, of both Homes , who have intimate relations with members at the Stock and Gold Exchanges. and may havemerhaps "joint accounts" with them. Much of the finarcial action in Congress looks as though it was taken to affect the ;niece of gold and stocks in Wall street. Neither members of Congress nor bank officers arc im maculate, and. while looking for delinquents. a "smell int committee" misfit find speculating members IM well as speculating bank officers. The Latest Reports by 'Telegraph. Nair Yoxa. January 20th.— Stocks naive. Chicago sod Rock Island. it; Reading., Canton Company, 653“Frie, 73%; Cleveland and Toledo. 1010,21; Cleveland and Pittsburgh, 951 i; Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, 100%; Michisan Central. 109,t4; Michigan Southern. 87,14; New York Central, 124%; Illinois Central, 131; Oumberland Preferred, 122•' Virginia es. 42: Missouri 6s, 1110: Hudson River. 140; F. S. Flve-Twenties, 1862. 120 do.. 1864, 107 ; do. 1865, 109?4; new bane, 106; l'en.Forlies. 10211; Seven- Thirties. lehfi; Money. 6 per cent; Gold, 13956; Ex change. Nay: 1 °au, Jan. 20.—Cotton quictl7k.Flonr dull:Pales 4500 bbl-. Sate, $8 20(q.10 60. Ohio $9 70(1 - 0 Wt. 213 75. e ern. 98 2.0q514 70; Southern, $9 70®515 OU: California, SI2V-413 60 Wheat dull. Corn firm advanced 1 cebt; pales of 26e00 bushels Western, 197q,136. Oats dull, 85. Bailey steady; tales 4,000 bushels State, 186. Beef quiet Pork dull: rness,_s2l 62,4. Lard quiet. Whisky quiet. BALTIMOIM San. 2O.—Cotton very firm. flour quiet, with tome demand for shipping brands. Wheat dull and steady; prime and choice Southern red, $2 75 , .?;52 85; choice white. $9. Corn active and lower; prime yellow and mixod Western. $110; white, $1 10(x$113 Oats 72€5175c. Bacon active and steady. Bulk Shoulders, 9c.. to arrive. LACE CURTAINS UPHOLSTERY GOODS r e .mno a Ti-avr,..wi, • - AttentiOn is specially asked to the quality of the Goods offered. Being selected personally of the best menu• lecturers in - the-foreigft - markeb, pur■ chasers may rely on getting articles of prime quality and at only one profit on first cost, there being no intermediate profit to pay. I. K WALRAYEN, MASONIC HALL, 719 Chestnut Streets FINE L' CHAMPAGNES Sherries, Brandies, • Clarets, Moselle and Hook Wines. L. Ihnderees Carte Blanche; Imperialland Dry Mary; Widow CHconot,of the vintage of ISM and the finest since 1847-48; Carte D'0r;.(1.,11. & Juke klumm'e; lield4ek b Co. • Kurfetherg'e tipati ikg Moselle and Hock Wines; I on ; firarkling and Dry Catawba and ()olden Wedding • Bordeaux W. ito Wine; genuine Cordials, (lards, gh and ;medium grades; Sherri. a do.; Old Port do.; fine Brandy; EugHsh and Nootch Ales; Ouinnes*'.B Lublin Brown Stout. All tlm•e, tine goods are guaranteed pi:wine, and sold by the cask, demijohn, caeo or bottle, at ;he importers' or agent.' price., by SIMON COLTON & CLARKE, Importers, Jobbers and Retailers, S. W. corner Broad and Walnut. ist-soff m et,r A REWARD.—LOST, THIS MORNING. AROUT if 10 o'clock, on Highteenth alma. between Summer and Arch etrectr, a roll of noten of different deuotniva 410111`, sluountinit to $416. The above reward will be paid I 3 if returned to EMU!: WOOD, Eighteenth street, above Rate. It* THIRD EDITION. BY TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. Appeals from the Court of Claims. DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT DISTRESS AMONG THE POOR CONTRADICTION OF A RUMOR The United States supreme Court• WAtiIIINGTON, Jan. 20.—The United States,l3u preme Court, to•day, announced an oplidon as to appeals from the Court of Claims. These are allowed by the acts of Congress, but the ques tions sent up for review must be strictly those of law. Chief Justice Chase was'absent from the bench in consequence of sickness. No opinion was de livered on the motion to advance on the docket the McArdlc case, which was argued on Friday last. Distress Among the Poor. [ Special Despatch to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The destitution in this city among the poor IS very great, and it is re presented that thousands are suffering for the ae. tual necessaries of life. A great many have come here from other cities, with the idea that the Government could provide them with work. In view of this alarming con dition of affairs, General Howard was at the Capitol to-day, urging upon many Senators the propriety of Congress extendirig relief to those most needy. While he does not tavor appropri ating money to be used directly for this purpose, he believes the necessary appropriations should be made to continue the work upon the Government buildings here and such other improvements as are contemplated. This would give employment to many thousands, and avert starvation and extreme suffering during the winter months. lam authorized by a member of Gen. Grant's staff to deny the truth of the statement tele graphed from here last night, that Gen. Grant had urged upon Mr. Stanton the propriety of tenderize his resignation. The statement also made. that Gen. Grant will not recognize orders issued from Secretary Stanton is equally untrue, and without founda tion. Gen. Grant has transacted business with Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War since the latter took charge. He in every respect treats him as War Secretary. He officially recognized him when he transferred the key of the War Office to Secretary Stanton. ItUMORS ABOUT SEC. STANTOI,7 Many persons here high in authority believe that Mr. Stanton will soon tender his resigna tion, but there is the very best authority for say ing that the same course will be pursued as has been announced in these despatches, and that Is, that be Las no intention of retiring from the War Department until reconstruction in the South is nearer accomplished than at present. DEYARTICRE OF GEN. GRANT Gen. Grant left here this morning for Rich mond, Va., to attend a business meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Institute. He was ac companied by Governor Fish, of Louisiana, and Bishop Melivable. He will return here to morrow. %Lth Congress—Second Session. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. 1868 SEntrE.—The Chair laid before the Senate a petition of citizens of North Andover, Mass., in relation to the rights of American citizens abroad. Referred to Committee on Foreign Re lations. Mr. Wilson (Mass.) presented a series of reso lutions on the same subject. Also, a petition from citizens of Boston, praying for a reduction of taxes. Referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Howard (Mich.), from the Committee on Pacific Railroad, reported a bill relating to the Central Branch of the TnionPacific Railroad Com pauy. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Edmonds (Vt.), from, the Committee on Judiciary, retorted adversely a bill for the pur ehas..e of s carbines. Mr. Fcrp (Conn.) introduced a bill to incor porate -the National Union Manufacturing and Publishing Company of Washington. Referred to the Committee on the District. Mr. Harlan (Iowa) introduced a bill to renew the charter and extend the boundaries of the city of Washington, &c. Referred to the Committee an the District of Columbia. The bill provides for annexing Georgetown and generally for the reorganization of the city government. Mr. Wilson (Mass.)introduced a bill to prohibit the payment of bounties to deserters. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairc. Also, a bill granting a million acres of public lands for the benefit of public schools in the Dis trict of Columbia. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. Hendricks (Ind.) presented a bill concern ing the District Judges. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Davis (Ky.),offered a resolution requesting information from the Secretary of War regarding vessels purchased or hired by the War Depart ment_during_the war,_with.prices paid, name of vessels tonnage, & c. Also the same partfeurers regarding those since sold or hired. Adopted. Mr. Stewart (Nevada) Introduced a bill to fa cilitate the administration of justice. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Chandler (Mich.) introduced a bill to regu late the foreign coasting trade of north, north eastern and northwestern frontiers of the United States. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Cragin (N. H.) introduced a bill to Increase the salary of the Judge of Utah Territory. Re ferred. The Chair laid before the Senate a communica tion from the Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to a resolution cf inciniry regarding captured and abandoned property. Referred to the Com mittee on Retrenchment. By Mr. Thomas (Md.),to authorize the building of a railroad from Washington city to connect with the Northern Central at or near the State line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Re ferred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. 34. Pike (Me.), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to establish ports of delivery and providing that American built vessels shall be put on the same footing as foreign built vessels for Registry in case of wrecks. deferred to the Committee on Commerce. Housr.—The Speaker proceeded, as the bust ness in order in the morning, hour on Monday, to the call of States for bills and Joint resolutions for reference only. Under the call bills and Joint reFolutions were introduced us follows: - - - - _ By Mr. 131aine Maine, ranking an appropria tion for rebuild i ng the United States Military Asylum at 'Pogue, Maine. Referred to the Com mittee on Appropriations. By Mr:Miller. (Pa.), to exempt from taxation all such manufactures as Mate to the industrial interests of the country. Referred to the Com mittee of Ways and 'Walls. ANOTHER CIO E IN CHICAGO. Destruction a Valuable Building— _Loss $200,000._, Irrom the ChiengoJOumal, nib lust] Chicago was visited last night by another great conflagration, Involving . heavy. losses. The flames broke out shortly after 11 o'clock in the five-Story brick building, No. 197 Lake street, and originated, It is,atated, on the fifth floor. As soon as the presence of fire was discovered an alarm was at once sounded, and the tire depart ment was quickly on the spot. The flames Spread with wonderful rapidity,and Fire Marshal Uarrie gave orders for sounding the general alarm. As soon. as possible every engine in the city reached the spot, the apparatus was adjusted, but no 2:30 O'Clook. water could be procured for nearly ball an hour. r This state of things resulted in a very heavy damage done on this occasion. The flames could easily have been extinguished at an incipient stage; but for nearly half an hour nothing What ever conid be done by the firemen, who had` to stand idly by. In a brief period the flames; unchecked, Efpread from floor to floor, and at last gained complete hold of the building in which they had originated. The whole five storied were converted into one vast, terrible furnace. The firemen, as soon as a supply of water came to band, poured volumes of water downward upon the flames. Boon after wards, owing to the intense heat, the eastern wall fell with an almost deafening crash, burying beneath it portions of adjoining premises, smash ing in neighboring walls and creating general havoc. At last, however; by dint of surprising energy and unflagging devotion to their work, the fire then succeeded in staying the progress of the destructive element and confining it within bounds of their control.. The aggegate loss will be about $200,000 IDAHO TERICITOILY. An Ambulance Ainbuscaded—A Ser geant Killed and His Wife Carried into Captivity by the Indians. FORT BOISE, I. T., December 20th, 1867.—The Indians are quite troublesome in this vicinity,and they occasionally cut off our men in spite of every precaution. A painful vent , occurred in October last which has caused a great deal of ex citement at this post. Sergeant Den Ville and wife and Sergeant C. F. Smith, while on their way to this post from a camp fifty miles distant, were at tacked by Indians in a rocky canon: Sergeant Denville was killed and his wife carried into cap tivity. From Sergeant Smith, who effected his escape and came to this fort, we obtain the fol lowing brief statement of the affair: The party were traveling in a four-horse ambulance, and were properly armed, but fell into an ambuscade while passing through the canon, and received the fire of a large number of Indians. The fire was returned, but without avail, in consequence of the savages being securely covered by the rocks, and before the ambulance had gone many yards, Sergeant Denville received three bullet wounds and fell out of the carriage. , The horses then took fright and ran away, but a well-directed ball killed one of them and brought the vehicle to a stop. Sergeant Smith and Mrs. Denville then sprung out and fled for a short distance, when Mrs. Denville, looking around, saw the Indians collecting about her husband's body and the am bulance, and at once announced that she would not leave them, but would share her husband's fate. She at once turned and retraced her steps, while Sergeant Smith continued his flight and effected his escape, coming into this post the neat night, and reporting the facts to Brevet Col. Sinclair, commanding th e post. Parties were at once sent out from the fort and others from Camp Lyons, which scouted the country about, but did not come up with the well-mounted savages,who escaped to the mountains. The body of Sergeant Denville was found where he fell, but no signs were discovered of his wife. Subsequently,a party en a scout surprised and defeated a party of In dians, killing five and taking seven prisoners,one of whomi was mounted on Sergeant Denville's horse. On one of the squaws was found clothing belonging to Mrs. Denville, and information was obtained to the effect that Mrs. Denville was a captive among the Indians in the vicinity of Chalon lake. It is hoped that an exchange will be effected, by which she may be safely restored to her friends again, in return for the release of the In dian prisoners. Every effort will be made to accomplish this scheme or effect her release in some other manner. The sergeant and.wife had their little earnings with them, when they fell into the savages' hands, and of course lost all. UiTY BUILLETLN. „ Tint FOURTH WARD WIFE MIIRDER—CORDt FEE'S INQUEST.—Coroner Daniels held an inquest this afternoon in the case of Lizzie Graham, who died from the effects of being shot by her husband, last week,at No: 827 Fitzwater street. Edward Coogen, residing at MI Fitzwater street, tett!. fle&•-On Thursday, at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock I was in the room Ito. 527 t itzwater street; Robert Graham was raging up and down the room, walking in and out; his wife sent word to him to know ivhether she could come in the room with him; be said "yes;' he walked up and down the room four or five timer, thenput his hand in hisocket, pulled out a pistol and ran for the door; his wife p ran to get out, and my mother ran after him; my mother got in betweea them, and I got Graham around the waist; I got hold of the hand the pistol was in. but could not hold him; he fired the Eliot at her; he threw his hand over mother's shoulder and shot: then ho wanted to stay in the roam, and I coaxed him to go out; he went out with ano into the street and gave me the pistol. [Pistol identified.] We /topped and had a drink; then I asked him if ho would give himself LID, and he said yes; we went into Alderman McCloskey's office and he gave himself up; 1 saw my brother there and told him to get a police cfficer; when he was walking up and down tile room he did not say anything; he was sober; never heard him make any threats; I saw his wife with blood on the back of the head imiriediately after he shot th is pistol off ;she did notsay any thing ;never heard any difficulty between them; have heard him say that she was going to poison him; he had said before that he bad been poisoned; saw the pistol about half an hour before; it was empty; ho gave it to tue in my hand; he did not go out after lie chewed the pistol; did not see him load it; did not hear him gay what he was going to do with the phtoL Dire. Mary Coogan, sworn—l am nursing Graham's mother; the doctor ordered me to Rend for Itodman; he came in and telegraphed fo, his wife; a day or two after she canoe on he told her that eho had poisoned him and be ran out in hie bare bead to the apothecary's to set an emetic; be acted in a very strange manner and told his wife that she bad put a spell on him; every time he would see her he would snake all over, and begged her to take the spell off; he wag so crazy at times that I was afraid of him ; on Thursday morning he came in !ooking very wild; his wife came in; he was walking up and down the room; he took the pistol out of his pocket and his wife ran towards the door, and I ran with her; then he root her; she fell against the door; 'souther to the hoepital in a carriage: never heard of Graham having any difficulty with his wife; she always praised bins; she has bren afraid of him since he got into these spells; he would not eat or drink anything in the house for two weeks, for fear she would put pobon into it; ho wee per fectly eoler when he came in that morning; I heard the night before that he had npistol the night before; then he put the pistol to the head of my son. Andrew Comm testified-1 have been sitting up with Grabill:Ws mother for two nights before this occasion; on Thursday morning heard a noble down stairs, and went down ; heard the shot; I took Mrs. Graham to the rlospital; the night before the occurrence! was Bitting in the room; my mother and Mrs. Graham were there; they went to bed and left my lather and 'Redman in the room; I got a mattress and laid it near his entitle:We bed; Redman looked queer, and I coaxed him to lie down; he laid there about twenty minutes. then got up and ran out of the room; he came back, and his child was lying on the settee with a shawl over it; he jerked the shawl off of the child, put it on. and went to the door, then he came back and said, "If yen are talking about me. PR blow the top of the head off of you:” he put something to my head; I thought it was -a—pistol; balm seen_ _him drunk. but did not see him drink anything for several days - before the shooting; have known him since childhood; he has been from Heston about two weeks; he talked wildly several days before the occurrence; he seemed to be afraid of his wife. Mrs. Mary Brannan, residing at 527 Fitzwater I had been talking to the prieener. I went to my room where his wife was concealed from him: I told her that he appeared quite sensible; she asked me to go down to the room where he was; I did so; she asked, him what ho wished for breakfast; his reply was—"A half a dozen of eggs and some ham,'" I then went to leave the room, when ho told her to keep me to breakfast; it was than after twelve o'clock ; I went up and about seven minutes after I heard a scream ; Andrew Coogan ran down states, and I followed him; I hoard a shot, and then heard Mrs. Coogen say "he shot her saw the prisoner then coming out of the room; saw Mrs . braham in a sitting position near the door with the blood flowing from her bead: I told her once that he had a pistol ; she paid that ho had that to kill her; first saw him with a pistol thst morn ing • she told me that several times ho threatened to kill her;r he was drinking from the time he came until hie wife arrived; have seen him drunk; ho was a little under the influence of liquor the day she carne; ho appeared to be very dit ferei. t titter she came; she never accounted to me for his strange actions ;he boated her all right when she come ea; the next day thestrange actions began. Anthony Loftus testified—The prisoner came in and asked for best brandy; s:nt my wife out; be said, "Fill it ep, no matter what the cost is:" my wife charged him 25 cents for it; afterwards Coogan come in and told me to give this man a drink of gin; this was after twelve o'clock. AK Richard McCloskey, testified—Graham and Ed- ward Coogan came into my office ; Graham said "Alder men, 1 have shot my wife in ti o back of the head, and here is the pistol 1 shot her with ;" I told Coogan to go out and get an officer; after the young man went out I asked O'reham what was the reason 'mallet his wife; he told me that the night before she tried to pollen him by rubbing seine poisonous substance upon the soles of his feet; he wanted to go and stand at the door; I told him that he could not go out, that I would have to commit him to prison; the officer came end I committed the pri soner: be was perfectly sober at the time. Dr. E 13. llhepleigh teetified—Made a pea modem ex amination of Elizabeth Graham; found a gunshot wound over the occiiiifoiatrietat iniftere one inch to the right of the median line; the ball passed through the bone for. ward and to the left through the brain, and way foetid resting upon the equ &moue portion of temporal hone; Rho came to her death from hemorrhage of the brain unused by the wound. The verdict of the jury was— " That Elizabeth Graham came to her death from a gunshot wound, indicted by her husband, Redmond Graham, Jan.-16, 1868." Graham was then committed for trial. FIDE.—A ire occurred in the cotton vitiate establishment of 31mm Bridge & No. BOL North Front street, about cl ever , o'doc this morning. In roVng • fire in t stove in the fifth story, some of the red hot coa t s fell on tb3 waste r PDC( Bet It on fire. Tile datußge will b 3 about 6'500. No lusunmee. The building wet not downed to any extent. Nfri TUNG or• 111 E BAR. —A meeting of the 13 ir will h held In the Nisi reins Court-mem ca worn w 12X P. M., to bike nettnn with refer glee to the death of John .11:01nnybell, FHq• FOURTH EDITION. BY TELEGRAPH. A IRIZE FIGHT IN ST. LOUIS. One of the Combatants Killed. LATER FROM WASHINGTON. THE NEW RECONSTRUCTION BILL. Killed in ,ts Prize 'Fight. ST. Louts, January 20.—A prize fight came off on Bloody Island, opposite this city, yesterday between Dennis Reardon, aged 18, and Tommy McCann, aged 19, resulting In the death of the latter. The affair was conducted with perfect order, but no particulars have yet been received. An inquest on the body of McCann, to-day, may throw some light on the matter. Reardon and six others have been arrested. The Revenue Laws/. [Special Despatch to the Philadelphia Evening Buttetin.l WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The Committee of Ways and Means, at their session this morning, commenced a general revision of the revenue laws. Meetings of the committee will be held daily, and also at nights,nntil this work is com pleted. TIM RECONSTRUCTION BILL No vote is expected to be reached on the re construction bill until quite twenty minutes past four o'clock to-day, as Mr. Bingham has recon sidered his intention of calling the previous questions until after several half hour speeches have been made. After tho previous question has been called at twenty minutes past three o'clock, Mr. Bingham will speak one hour. It is his intention to call a vote directly on the bill as it now stands, cutting off all amendments. %Lib Conirress--ameond session. (lionsn.—Continued from Third Edition,' Mr. Butler (Mass.) presented a bill for the bet ter regulation of the custody and expenditures of the public moneys. Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. It repeals all the laws authorizing the traniii; of appropriations from one branch of a depart ment to another.preventa the payment of money received from the sale of property, he., except in pursuance of appropriations made by law, and prescribes a fine not exceeding $lO,OOO, Imprison ment of not Icee than one nor more than twenty years, and ineligibility to public office for viola tions of its provisions. Mr. Brooks presented a resolution urging the Committee on Foreign Affairs to report as soon as possible .on the Imprisonment of American citizens in foreign countries, with the memorial and resolutions of the Knights of. St. Patrick, New York, on the same subject. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. By Mr. Van Horn (Mo.) a resolution with refer ence to the right of naturalized citizens. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. It recites that Michael O'Brien, claiming to be an - American citizen, was recently tried, Convicted and executed for an alleged offence in England. That he was denied the benefits of a mixed jury, which,by the laws of England, is given to her subjects, or citizens of other nations. That he claimed the interference - of 'Mr. Adams, the American Minister at London, who refused to take any action, in the case. It there fore calls upon the President to demand of the British government an explanation In the matter of Michael O'Brien, and such satisfaction and re dress as the facts may warrant,land to represent to the British government that the United States acknowledges no right of interference by other States with its naturalized citizens by reason of their nativity or former allegiance; that they are entitled to all the rights and protection of American citizens, and that an infringement of such rights by foreign governments, will be held as a cause of war by the Government and people of the United States. It also declares it to be the duty of the President to recall Mr. Adams. By Mr. Myers (Pa.), providing that the in creased pension allowed to widows and orphans should not be decreased by reason of their being inmates of any public institution. Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. By Mr. Coburn (Ind.), providing that U. S. District Judges may call each other to act for them in cases of disability or interest, in the same manner as they are now called by the Cir cuit Judges or Chief Justice. To the Judiciary Committee. Also, concerning the payment of bounty to the veteran volunteers who enlisted prior to July 14, 1863. To the Committee on. Military Affairs. It directs that bounty be paid to such persons 'under General orders 191 and 216, for the yearlB63, which provides that all soldiers re-enlisting for three, years, after nine months' service, who have been honorably discharged shall be paid veteran bounty. By Mr. Hubbard (W. Va.), fixing the compen sation of members of Congress $4,000 per annum, and mileage at the rate of 10 cents per mile. The compensation of the Speaker to be .$7,000. Re ferred to the Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. Poland (Vt.) granting bonnty to drafted soldiers. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. By Mr. Baldwin (Mass.), to abolish the office of Director of the Bureau of Statistics, and to transfer the business of that bureau to the De partment of Education. Referred to the Coni mittee on Retrenchment. The call of the States for bills having been finished, the Speaker proceeded, during the balance of the morning hour, to call - the Stites for resolutions.- Mr. Cobb (Wis.) offered a reeolation authori zing the Select Committee on the Workbags of the Pay Department to summon witnesses and continue to take testimony and send for such papers and recor& as may be necessary. Also directing that the committee notify the Paymaster-General of its meetings and allowlhim to be present and cross examine witnesses, and declaring that before the making of any report inculpating any officer of the Government, such officer shall be notified to appear and explain his conduct before the committee. • 4. After opposition by Messrs. Blaine, Wash burne (Ill.) and Spaulding, the resolution was adopted. ILLINOIS• A Whole Family Poieoned—A Daugh ter Charged 'with their Attempted Murder. CHICAGO, Jan. 19, 1868.- An atrocious attempt to murder an entire family, including the husband, wife, and three'ehildren, by the administration of strychnine, was made in this city yesterday at noon. The' head of the family is Andrew Stang, one of the wealthiest Germans in the city, and - his daughter Elizabeth, abdut sixteen. is under arrest as the poisoner. It la believed that the desire to accumulate, bordering nearly on avarice on the part of the old people, was the impelling cause which led the young girl to attempt to take the life of her relations. She complains bitterly of having been overworked and 111-treated because she did not earn sufficient money to suit the grasping notions of her parents. The poison was brought into the house by the girl, ane according to the statement of one of the childrem was placed in the coffee pot. On the other hand, the girl al leges that the mother put the poison into the eoffee.• 'I he victims are the husband, Mrs. Star;, lki,!raaret, 12 years of age, Rose 10, and • .. 4 r-. They will probably all recover. c;s_() 04 'ANL S::,SCO TO LOAN ON 1408TOAON A. B. CARVER CO., I , is $074) 8. W. corner Ninth and Filbert. _ )0.1:1)) ?OS REY t 9 AN.QUINICE OF TIM t ,Ir s t et t 1 it 11 PIS e. a pint of excellent... Beef .Tea: a Ike f D rop. Almop on haud and for sale by JOBVE( 1! 1' o •Siri • ,Sr CO.. 1088011th Delaware avenna.' k.:W Ph GA NEL-1U BARH4II3 NEW T e CkPA: , : `t Pocar4 landiAg optiteameld_pelarot for nide h v RiNSIER d W.IOS Boatb‘Migsre toroPro INE APPLB CHICEBt.--100 sox= lv Coupignni. Landing and for oak by .11.19.3 brsslcit att (). Ag.nto for Norton & Elmer, 118 Oa Delawaro Avenu 3:15 O'Clook.
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